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I know a couple of guys who are getting ready to class up for Primary and are friends with one of my winging class buddies, and they live on base. They HATE it. It sucks since they're some of the only SNAs who are living on base, they have to drive to other people's places since no one wants...

<threadjack> The 14,565th way you know you spend too much time on AirWarriors: you refer to someone as a joboy... ...in the real world. </threadjack>

The way it worked for me was they added about six hours of sim time to my actual instrument time to make sure it adds up to 50 hours total for your instrument rating. The sim is pretty sweet, and since you don't have ANY seat of the pants feel, your scan gets pretty decent.

Argh! I see this NOW?!

I don't think so... At least I sure hope not. Seems like your example is passing the buck to the extreme, even more than the case in point.

Okay, I'm a wee bit drunkish so ignore any typos I decided to leave at 2 am. The reasons I liked 35 were the following: 1. Very small squadron, very closely knit group of IPs and studs. Only thing I've seen that came close was VT-28 because the squadron spaces were closer together and we...

Concur.

I was super stressed out in Primary, much less so in Advanced. Only time I thought about quitting was once in Primary after an atrocious BI sim with one of the Horsemen, and once after a little loss of confidence in Advanced RIs. That said, IFS was a huge wakeup to me that there was a lot to...

This is a bigger stretch--the firefighter is going into to take care of the actual situation, whereas I'm assuming the news helos are allowed to be there, but aren't required to be there. If they had been police choppers specifically tasked to keep an eye on this guy, I could see your argument...

Who has a secret agenda? The last statement I totally disagree with. Once someone puts a slant on something, how do you know when it stops unless you check it against something else? Goes right with what FLASH said. I don't plug into the news as much as I should, but I'm with FLASH on...

My Primary experience in Corpus was exactly the opposite of what almost everyone else has had. I just checked my logbook, and I started flying here on 10 AUG 06, and finished exactly five months later. It was pure luck, though--my onwing always had a good plane, so no ACNAs in FAMs, the...

Good gouge.

Thanks, man. As always, let me know if there's anything I can do.

Damn, that totally blows. I'll keep an eye out for anything weird.

I was a strange situation because I fell between the cracks of my actual class and the class behind me (was actually behind most of that class) and didn't have anyone else to fly with.

Usually we go up in pairs. Your first flights in contacts (C4101-6 and C4201-2) are onwing, with the first block being 2 hour hops per student, so you're in the plane for ~4 hours at a time. Once you're in the second block of contacts, it goes down to 1.5 hours per stud and stays that way...

One of my friends told me it's going to be a trilogy... :D

Saw it a couple of days ago and was not expecting much. It really blew me away with the graphics (though I have to agree that there were a few spots where you couldn't quite tell what was going on), and while there were a few crappy lines here and there, overall it was fairly solid, and very...

This comment doesn't surprise me coming from you after watching those horrific trailers on your sig...:sick_125::icon_wink

Is this the Deerwood Club / Deercreek Country Club area? Right now I'm thinking Mandarin sounds awesome, with the area Intruder Driver mentioned, Avondale and Riverside as backups if it's way too expensive for a couple of O-2s. A total side note: what's the area like for pets? I've got...

Damn skippy, MB.

So they just put gauges wherever they fit, or are there a couple different configurations or what? I'm just curious about how hard it is to come up a different scan for ever frickin plane. Sounds fun either way, sign me up...:eek:

Yep, and only P-3 guys go to VT-35 on the Navy side.

I had a feeling something like this would happen--my thread just became the dumping ground for every dude looking for a house or something to sell (yes, I'm looking at you, MB... <grin>).

If any of you are looking for a pretty nice one or two bedroom place on the southside of Corpus (not on the island), check out Summerhouse Apartments. They're pretty quiet, in a good neighborhood, about five minutes from an HEB and an HEB Plus, and about fifteen minutes from base (minus the...

Hope your significant other doesn't know about this site...:icon_wink

I thought it was something like 30 slots a year. Much harder to get than jets, actually.

I dunno. Sure, money is cool, but being stuck in a freezing cold building that smells like a nursing home doesn't seem like it'd be that great. Of course, that is just Bldg 89...

Snake, you're a bad man.

I really like the idea of the CEP and want to give it a shot, even if I'm not flying anything that noisy--I like understanding ATC as well as I can. That said, I read the modification they have for David Clark headsets like we're issued in the training command, and I have a feeling they...

Are you serious?

Yep, that's what I was getting at. Just trying to get a feel for what was going on since I'd started hearing some interesting things around the squadron. MB, you're coming tonight, right?

Uh--what?

Minor bump and course correction... Anyone who was planning on going now not going because it's "too expensive," or because of a certain party who's involved in its planning (not me)? PM me if you want.

I've heard about some study that found that kids who don't play in the dirt and eat sandbox sand early on don't develop the right bacterial flora in their gut and they never end up processing food correctly.

MB, are those manatees the aquatic kind, or the kind that you buy a house for?

You're a lucky man.

Really? I thought they were supposed to be red and gold. You know, like in Harry Potter. :D

Upper right looks like an angled infinity symbol. Don't know the significance of putting it in stars. In the same vein as the last post, could it be a warning to be especially watchful for engine fires on startup at night?

I don't get it... what's the question? Red white and blue: duh. A stylized bird of prey/eagle: it's cool? A trident: we're in the Navy. The 18: are you serious? I'm sorry, I get super sarcastic when I'm loaded.

How's that going to work, exactly? Studs will go to jets first, then see how things wash out and the guys with the lower ACM/overall scores get sent back to Corpus for E2/C2?

I've seen 2 ACNAs thus far in 35 (~2-3 months). Scoob, whatever the hell your avatar is, I'm afraid it's going to give me nightmares after this mildly drunken posting on AW at 3 am...

I flew the Friday they all went down--it was like flying on the weekend. Have they managed to get many of them back up?

Back gate: you can get on base quick. There's a Walmart. End of attractions. Near the airport: centrally located, shopping in the vicinity, reasonable drive to NASP, kind of a hike to Whiting. Would be my second choice. Near I-10 / Governer's Gate: There are nice places up there (the...

Jenn, from what I can remember, you'll be doing chin ups or flexed arm hang at OCS (hearsay; I never attended, but they've got pullup bars all over the grounds by the gym). Try the "grease the groove" method: do flexed arm hang for as long as you can while remaining fresh enough to do it again...

+1 for Crossfit. It's infinitely scalable to any and every ability level. The nutrition they recommend is based off of the Zone diet, which takes its cues from how different foods affect hormones. The actors in 300 were trained by Mark Twight, who basically ripped off the guys at...

Our systems instructor in Primary told us a story about a guy in Primary whose instructor was trying to get them back to the line as quick as he could since it was getting dark and it was a day contact ride. This was a little while ago, when they did the after landing checklist on the roll...

Zilch, you keep making Jax sound like a place I really want to put down some roots...:eek:

Thanks, FMRAM.

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